For founders launching a research-compound brandFor research-compound founders

Your entire store, built and handed to you.

Storefront, product imagery, catalogue, checkout, and the backend you run it from. Built as one system, then transferred into accounts you own.

Applications reviewed within one business day. Limited builds per month.

Storefront Backend
The storefront catalogue page.
The admin dashboard.
The storefront on a phone.
A rendered product vial.
meridian-research.example
The Meridian demonstration storefront: announcement bar, full navigation with search and cart, hero, and three rendered vials each showing a lot number and a certificate checkmark.
A product page column showing dose variants with independent prices, a restocking state, live lot stock, a volume pricing tier table, and a certificate panel carrying the lot number and HPLC purity.
The commerce logic, not just the layout

Dose variants priced independently, an out-of-stock dose that still sells the other two, volume tiers that recalculate, and a certificate panel bound to the lot number on that specific vial. This is the part that takes a developer three months.

The catalogue page with category filters, a result count, a sort control, and a grid of product cards showing renders, doses, prices, and stock states.
A catalogue that behaves like a shop

Filters, sort, result counts, blends alongside singles, per-card stock states. Loaded with your products before handoff, so you launch with a store that looks like it has been running rather than one that opened this morning.

Open the store and click through all 12 pages Open the admin behind it

Launching this isn't one problem.
It's six.

Most people solve one of them, stall on the rest, and end up eight months in with a half-built theme and nothing shipped.

The store

Theme templates look like theme templates. Custom builds run five figures and several months of back-and-forth with a developer who's never seen this niche.

The product photos

You have label artwork and no product yet. Photographers need physical vials. Stock images look like stock images.

The supply chain

Finding a supplier who answers, ships consistently, and provides real documentation takes months of dead ends and a few expensive mistakes.

Getting paid

Standard processors decline this category on sight. Knowing which options exist and how to set them up is its own education.

The follow-up

Cart recovery and post-purchase messaging are what make a store worth having. Most launches skip them because building them is tedious.

The time

Every week spent building is a week the store isn't finished. And you still have to learn the thing you were trying to avoid learning.

We do all of it, once, for a fixed price, and hand you the keys.

And the creative to run it.

Ad frames built from your own product renders, in the formats that actually get used. Made in your admin, on your account.

Vertical ad frame: a newspaper held up with a breaking news headline.
Breaking news
Vertical ad frame: two printed receipts compared side by side.
Comparison
Vertical ad frame: a search bar above a certificate of analysis card.
Search and solve
Vertical ad frame: bold Bundle and Save typography with an offer badge.
Offer
Vertical ad frame styled as a phone notes checklist.
Notes checklist
Vertical ad frame: a vial beside a certificate of analysis card.
Product

Demonstration buildMeridian Research Supply is fictional, not a client. Compliance-safe angles only: no outcome, dosing, or results claims.

What most of them look like.

Drag the handle. Left is a themed store with placeholder images. Right is a build.

The built catalogue page with real product renders, filters and stock states.
A generic themed store with placeholder product images and stock badges.
Drag
Themed store Your build

One system, not five tabs.

Most stores in this category are stitched together. Yours is one build, and everything runs from the same place.

The usual way

Shopifya paid themeWordPress WooCommerce4 pluginsa page builder COAs in Drivean email toola spreadsheet a second spreadsheet

Separate logins, separate bills, and the thing you need is always in the other tab.

Your build

One system
  • Storefront and checkout
  • Catalogue, stock, and pricing
  • Certificates bound to lots
  • Orders, customers, rewards
  • Affiliates and transactional email
  • Analytics

One login, on infrastructure you own, with no plugin that breaks on update.

What you actually get

Not a scope document that gets vaguer as it goes. This is the list from the contract, with the limits stated where they exist.

The 12 pages we build
  • Home
  • Catalogue
  • Product
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Account
  • Certificate lookup
  • About
  • FAQ
  • Contact
  • Shipping & returns
  • Terms & privacy

Every one is in the demonstration store above, working, and every one gets built for you.

01

A custom-coded storefront

Not a theme, and not a page builder. Home, catalogue, product pages, cart, multi-step checkout, customer accounts, a certificate-lookup page, and your legal pages, built on our platform and styled to your brand.

Styled to your brand, so no two stores we build look related to each other.
YOU SEND Flat label artwork: a rectangular label carrying the brand wordmark, compound name, dose, lot number, and a research-use-only line.
Flat artwork, any format
WE RETURN A photorealistic studio product photograph of a glass vial wearing that exact label, every line of type intact and legible.
Studio product photography, ready for the store
02

Product imagery from your labels

You send flat label artwork. We render photorealistic product images from it. No physical product needed, no photographer, no stock photos, and no waiting on your first production run to have a store worth showing.

A set number of images, produced with AI-assisted tools and delivered to you as files. We make no warranty about their copyrightability.
meridian-research.example/shop
A loaded catalogue page with product cards, blends, filters, and stock states.
03

Your catalogue, loaded and configured

Products, doses, variants, pricing, descriptions, and certificate files that you supply, configured and wired to the lookup page. You get a store with a live catalogue in it, not an empty shell you have to fill yourself.

We configure what you give us. We don't source, procure, test, or verify certificates or lab work.

Everything else in the build

Your brand, applied properly

Colour system, typography, and layout built from your assets, or a direction we design for you. Two revision rounds on the direction, two more on the assembled store.

Payment integration

We wire in the processor you're approved for, and tell you which options actually work in this category. Getting approved is on you; the store is delivered payment-ready either way.

Supplier introductions

Written introductions to suppliers we've worked with, with context on how they operate. Contact information only. We don't test, endorse, or stand behind any supplier, and you contract with them directly in your own name.

Affiliate software

Referral codes, commission tracking, and payout reporting, built into the store. We don't recruit, introduce, or supply affiliates, creators, or customers.

Transactional email

Order confirmations, shipping notices, and account emails sending from your own domain, with authentication set up.

An admin dashboard you can run

Orders, products, customers, promos, analytics. Plus a recorded walkthrough of how to use it, so you're not guessing at 11pm. See the admin →

Operating documentation

Written documentation of how your store's software works and how to administer it. Reference material only. Not a marketing plan, and we don't execute any of it.

Message templates, installed LAUNCH+

Welcome, cart-recovery, post-purchase, and win-back templates configured inside your store's software. You decide whether, when, and to whom anything sends. We don't send on your behalf.

Creative files LAUNCH+

A fixed set of image and copy files, delivered as assets you own. We don't create, place, run, manage, or optimise advertising, and we don't supply a marketing plan or a sales program.

Priority response LAUNCH+

Front-of-the-queue replies for your first 10 business days after handoff, when the questions come fastest.

And then the part nobody else does

Your store transfers into accounts you own: your GitHub, your hosting, your database. No recurring licence fee, nothing we can switch off. If you never speak to us again, your store keeps running. You pay your own hosting, domain, and email bills after handoff, and none of it comes to us.

This is your brand, not a licensed one. No territory, no royalties, no system to follow. What exactly you own →

Built for the phone first

Most of your traffic will arrive on one. Every page is laid out for it, not shrunk to fit.

The storefront home page on a phone: compliance bar, hero, and product lineup.
Storefront
A product page on a phone: image gallery, dose selector, and add to cart.
Product page
The checkout on a phone: address, delivery, and payment steps.
Checkout

Demonstration buildMeridian Research Supply is fictional, not a client. Sample data throughout.

Empty laboratory vials with crimp caps on a pale surface.

Every store we build ships with your catalogue already loaded and every product image already made.

And the backend you actually run it from

The part most builds skip. Twenty-eight screens, all live in the demo, all yours at handoff. Open it and click anything.

meridian-research.example/admin
Admin dashboard: revenue and order charts, order status counts, recent orders and top products. Orders screen listing every order with customer, status, payment method and total. Storefront controls: switches for the announcement bar, age gate, research use only notice and more. Footprints: the step-by-step route a visitor took through the store before buying. Creative Studio: brand presets and generation history for making your own product images. Integrations: connection cards with guided setup for email, shipping and advertising tools. Rewards screen showing points outstanding, earning rules, redemption tiers and a points ledger. Certificate library listing each lot number against its published certificate.

Screens from the demonstration build. Meridian is fictional and the figures are sample data.

Open the backend and click through it

Forty screens. Every one built.

Twelve storefront pages and twenty-eight admin screens. Not mockups, not a slide deck. You can open every one of them right now and click it.

Open the storefront Open the backend

Four steps

The build clock is about 20 business days and it starts at intake, not at signature. You're involved twice: once at intake, once at review.

STEP 01

Apply & talk

Short application, then we text you. We tell you honestly whether this fits, and if it doesn't we say so before you spend anything.

STEP 02

Intake

One structured form: brand, products, labels, accounts. The clock starts the day it's complete, so this is the only thing standing between you and a finished build.

STEP 03

We build

You get a status page and preview links at each milestone. Two consolidated review rounds. No chasing us for updates, no meetings.

STEP 04

Handoff

Everything transfers to your accounts once final payment clears, and you get credentials and a walkthrough. Fourteen days of free defect fixes after that.

Two ways to build it.

No retainer, no monthly minimum, no revenue share. You pay for a build and you get a build. We go through the numbers with you on the call.

Launch

  • Custom storefront, fully built
  • Brand applied: 2 rounds on direction, 2 on the build
  • Product renders from your labels
  • Your catalogue loaded & configured
  • Payment integration
  • Supplier introductions
  • Affiliate software + transactional email
  • Full transfer to your accounts
  • The full 28-screen backend
  • Certificate library, bound to your lots
  • 14 days of defect fixes after handoff

Everything here is the whole build. Launch+ adds the tools you use after it is live: your own creative studio, a second design direction, rewards, and the video library.

Apply for Launch
MOST COMPLETE

Launch+

  • Everything in Launch

PLUS

  • Creative Studio, unlocked. Generate your own product shots and ad frames from inside your admin, on your own AI account.
  • Two design directions. You pick from two distinct concepts before we build.
  • Rewards module configured. Points, redemption tiers, and customer balances, live.
  • Video walkthrough library. Every admin screen, so you can hand it to a VA.
  • Message templates written and installed
  • Creative files: images and copy you own
  • Priority response for your first 10 business days after handoff
Apply for Launch+

Before you apply, the money terms in plain words.

The first half is due at signing and is non-refundable once we start. It reserves your build slot and we begin immediately. The second half is due when the build is complete, and it has to clear the bank before we transfer the accounts, which adds a short holding period after you pay.

If you walk away mid-build, we keep the deposit and nothing transfers. If we miss the outside date in the contract for reasons that are our fault, you can terminate and get back the portion covering whatever we didn't deliver.

Signing also authorises us to keep a card on file and charge it for the balance, and for any extra work you approve in writing. All of this is in the agreement, which you read in full before you pay anything.

No guarantee of results.

RUObuilt builds and transfers e-commerce software. We make no guarantee of revenue, sales, profit, traffic, customers, payment-processor approval, or any other business outcome. Results depend entirely on your own execution, capital, market, and compliance.

Optional after handoff: Concierge. Message a chat and the change gets made, up to a set number of change requests a month on your existing pages and products. Billed monthly and renews automatically until you cancel, one click, any time. While you're subscribed we hold scoped access to your repository, deployment, and database, removed within five business days of cancelling. You keep the store, the code, and the data either way.

What we don't do

  • We don't promise you'll make money. Not revenue, not sales, not traffic, not customers. Anyone selling you a website with an income promise attached is selling you something else.
  • We don't provide a marketing plan, a sales program, or customers. No traffic, no leads, no affiliates, no accounts, no placements, no territories. We build software and hand it over.
  • We don't run your ads or your marketing. We hand you the store and the documentation. Running the business is your job.
  • We don't source, buy, or touch product. We introduce you to suppliers; you contract with them directly.
  • We don't get you approved for payment processing. We integrate what you're approved for and tell you what works. Approval is between you and the processor.
  • We don't give legal or regulatory advice. Your compliance, labels, and claims are yours. The legal pages we install are templates for your lawyer to review.

We're good at building stores. That's the whole offer. If you want a finished, custom-built storefront in accounts you own, this is for you. If you want a guarantee that it prints money, buy something else.

Questions

What exactly do I own at the end?

Your store and everything specific to it: the custom code, the design, the product images, the content, and the database, assigned to you and transferred into your own GitHub, hosting, and database accounts once final payment clears. The reusable platform components underneath, the ones we build every store on, stay ours. You get a perpetual, royalty-free licence to use them inside your store, for your own business, forever. The only thing you can't do is resell them or use them to build stores for other people. There's no recurring licence fee and nothing we can switch off. If you never speak to us again, your store keeps running.

How long does it really take?

About 20 business days from the day your intake is complete. There's a hard outside date in the contract: if we blow past it for reasons that are our fault, you can terminate and get back the fees covering whatever we didn't deliver. The most common cause of delay is a client who takes three weeks to send label artwork, which is why the clock starts at intake and not at signature.

What happens between my final payment and the transfer?

The balance is charged when the build is complete, and the funds have to clear the bank before anything transfers. That's a short holding period, and it's in the contract because a transfer that later gets reversed leaves us having handed over a store nobody paid for. You see the finished store and a full walkthrough before the charge, not after.

What if I don't have a supplier or product yet?

That's normal and it's fine. We make written supplier introductions as part of the build, and product renders come from flat label artwork, so you don't need physical inventory to have a finished store. What you do need is the capital to buy product once you're ready to sell. We provide contact information only, we don't stand behind any supplier, and you contract with them directly.

Can I get approved for payment processing?

Maybe, and it's between you and the processor. We'll tell you which options actually work in this category and integrate whichever you get approved for. If you're not approved by handoff, the store is delivered payment-ready and you activate it later. We can't influence that decision and the fee isn't contingent on it.

What happens if something breaks after handoff?

For fourteen days after handoff we fix anything we built that doesn't work the way the contract's acceptance criteria say it should, free. That covers our code. It doesn't cover changes you make, third-party services going down, platform policy changes, or new features you decide you want. After that you can subscribe to Concierge, where you message a chat and the change gets made, or pay hourly.

How many revision rounds do I get?

Four in total: two on the design direction, then two consolidated rounds on the assembled store before handoff. Beyond that, changes are hourly or through Concierge. It's structured this way so the build actually finishes, and each round carries a response deadline in the contract so a build can't stall indefinitely.

Why an application instead of just buying?

Because this doesn't work for everyone, and a refund fight helps neither of us. The deposit is non-refundable once we start, so the application is a real filter: if you don't have capital for inventory, or you're six months from being ready, we'll tell you to come back later rather than take the money.

Do you build for anyone in my space?

Every build gets its own design direction, so no two stores look related. Where we take on more than one brand in the same lane, we don't share supplier terms, pricing, or anything else between them.

Tell us what you're launching.

Two minutes to apply. We reply by text within one business day and tell you honestly whether this is a fit. If it isn't, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

Apply for a build

No payment required to apply. No guarantee of business results, ever.